Hi all,I'm Sakaida.
I run a small software company called Forex FanClub out of Taiwan, and I've been trading forex since I was 30 — I'm 48 now, so this market and I go back a long way. Honestly the trading and the coding feed each other: I trade, something annoys me about my workflow, and I end up coding a fix for it over a weekend.
That's the whole story behind these tools. I never set out to build a product. I just wanted my own charts to be less of a hassle, and after this many years at the screen I knew exactly where the friction was. At some point the folder got big enough that my team and I decided to properly build them out together, and I figured other people might as well use them too. They're all free, no registration, nothing to pay now or later.
Here's the lineup and what each one actually does day to day:
I've also written a full step-by-step guide with screenshots for every single one of them, so if anything trips you up, the walkthrough on each tool's page should have you covered.
PidPro — batch position closer.
If you run a lot of orders and hate closing them one by one, this is the one. Drop it on the chart, pick a mode, done. You can close everything manually with one click, or set it to auto-close by pips, by time, at break-even, or on a trailing stop. It shows your running P/L and draws the break-even line so you always know where you stand.
- PidPro download & setup guide
Gold Analytica — for the gold traders.
It pulls economic data from 30+ countries and runs it against about 5 years of history to give you a read on where XAUUSD might be leaning. Three scenarios instead of one fake "prediction," TradingView is built in, and the interface is in three languages. Note this one's a browser tool, not an MT4/MT5 add-on — you open it in your browser, no install needed. I use it to sanity-check my bias before I take a gold position.
- Access Gold Analytica
(Password: analytica)
Currency Strength Meter — ranks the 8 majors (USD, EUR, GBP, JPY, AUD, CAD, CHF, NZD) in real time
ranks the 8 majors (USD, EUR, GBP, JPY, AUD, CAD, CHF, NZD) in real time so you can see what's strong and what's weak at a glance. It'll also suggest the pairs where the gap is widest, has 7 timeframes, and a filter if you only care about certain currencies. Good for picking which pair to trade instead of staring at 28 charts.
- Currency Strength download & guide
BreakLine — draws support and resistance for you and pings you on breakouts.
Handles both horizontal levels and trendlines, and you can still draw your own by hand. Alerts come three ways: pop-up, email, or push to your phone. You choose whether it triggers on a touch or only on a candle close through the level.
- BreakLine download & setup guide
LocalTime — shows your own local time right on the MT4/MT5 chart and lays down an even grid.
Session open/close times are colour-coded so you can see at a glance when London or NY is running. Small thing, but it makes reading the day a lot cleaner. Works fine on high-DPI screens too.
- LocalTime download & setup guide
NapWela — candle countdown timer, but an accurate one.
It tells you exactly how long until the current candle closes, and Smart Mode watches multiple pairs at once so the number stays correct when you switch charts. Also shows live spread. If your entries depend on candle closes, you'll use this constantly.
- NapWela download & setup guide
Interactive MA — a moving average you can actually mess with in real time.
Switch between SMA, EMA, SMMA and LWMA on the fly, change the period with a keyboard shortcut, and there's a little on-chart panel showing your current settings. Handy when you're testing what fits a market instead of reloading the indicator every time.
- Interactive MA download & guide
All of them work on both MT4 and MT5 (Gold Analytica runs in the browser).
You can also find everything on one page here: 7 Free MT4/MT5 Trading Tools & Indicators
If you try any of these and something breaks or you've got a feature idea, tell me — half of what's in these tools came from stuff I wished they did while I was trading. Happy to hear it.
Thanks for reading, hope some of these make your trading a little smoother.
I run a small software company called Forex FanClub out of Taiwan, and I've been trading forex since I was 30 — I'm 48 now, so this market and I go back a long way. Honestly the trading and the coding feed each other: I trade, something annoys me about my workflow, and I end up coding a fix for it over a weekend.
That's the whole story behind these tools. I never set out to build a product. I just wanted my own charts to be less of a hassle, and after this many years at the screen I knew exactly where the friction was. At some point the folder got big enough that my team and I decided to properly build them out together, and I figured other people might as well use them too. They're all free, no registration, nothing to pay now or later.
Here's the lineup and what each one actually does day to day:
I've also written a full step-by-step guide with screenshots for every single one of them, so if anything trips you up, the walkthrough on each tool's page should have you covered.
PidPro — batch position closer.
If you run a lot of orders and hate closing them one by one, this is the one. Drop it on the chart, pick a mode, done. You can close everything manually with one click, or set it to auto-close by pips, by time, at break-even, or on a trailing stop. It shows your running P/L and draws the break-even line so you always know where you stand.
- PidPro download & setup guide
Gold Analytica — for the gold traders.
It pulls economic data from 30+ countries and runs it against about 5 years of history to give you a read on where XAUUSD might be leaning. Three scenarios instead of one fake "prediction," TradingView is built in, and the interface is in three languages. Note this one's a browser tool, not an MT4/MT5 add-on — you open it in your browser, no install needed. I use it to sanity-check my bias before I take a gold position.
- Access Gold Analytica
(Password: analytica)
Currency Strength Meter — ranks the 8 majors (USD, EUR, GBP, JPY, AUD, CAD, CHF, NZD) in real time
ranks the 8 majors (USD, EUR, GBP, JPY, AUD, CAD, CHF, NZD) in real time so you can see what's strong and what's weak at a glance. It'll also suggest the pairs where the gap is widest, has 7 timeframes, and a filter if you only care about certain currencies. Good for picking which pair to trade instead of staring at 28 charts.
- Currency Strength download & guide
BreakLine — draws support and resistance for you and pings you on breakouts.
Handles both horizontal levels and trendlines, and you can still draw your own by hand. Alerts come three ways: pop-up, email, or push to your phone. You choose whether it triggers on a touch or only on a candle close through the level.
- BreakLine download & setup guide
LocalTime — shows your own local time right on the MT4/MT5 chart and lays down an even grid.
Session open/close times are colour-coded so you can see at a glance when London or NY is running. Small thing, but it makes reading the day a lot cleaner. Works fine on high-DPI screens too.
- LocalTime download & setup guide
NapWela — candle countdown timer, but an accurate one.
It tells you exactly how long until the current candle closes, and Smart Mode watches multiple pairs at once so the number stays correct when you switch charts. Also shows live spread. If your entries depend on candle closes, you'll use this constantly.
- NapWela download & setup guide
Interactive MA — a moving average you can actually mess with in real time.
Switch between SMA, EMA, SMMA and LWMA on the fly, change the period with a keyboard shortcut, and there's a little on-chart panel showing your current settings. Handy when you're testing what fits a market instead of reloading the indicator every time.
- Interactive MA download & guide
All of them work on both MT4 and MT5 (Gold Analytica runs in the browser).
You can also find everything on one page here: 7 Free MT4/MT5 Trading Tools & Indicators
If you try any of these and something breaks or you've got a feature idea, tell me — half of what's in these tools came from stuff I wished they did while I was trading. Happy to hear it.
Thanks for reading, hope some of these make your trading a little smoother.
